Haemorrhoid surgery waiting time at Gosford Hospital

The median wait for haemorrhoid surgery — published by the source as "Haemorrhoidectomy" — at this public hospital in the Gosford area of New South Wales was 106 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait: 106 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 38 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 109 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 83 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 84 days in 2011–12 to 106 days in 2024–25 — up 26% — while the national median rose from 57 days to 63 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Wyong Hospital, about 22 km away, at 100 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Haemorrhoidectomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Gosford Hospital	106 days	not published	38 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	81 days	3.1%	1446 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	63 days	2.6%	4759 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 63 days marks the national median.

Wyong HospitalNSW · about 22 km away100 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 38 km away83 days
Northern Beaches HospitalNSW · about 38 km away47 days
Ryde HospitalNSW · about 48 km away47 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 52 km away90 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 52 km away64 days
Hawkesbury HospitalNSW · about 53 km away62 days
Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 56 km away272 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Haemorrhoidectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Gosford Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	84	70	57
2012–13	126	67	59
2013–14	88	64	59
2014–15	68	67	56
2015–16	65	63	54
2016–17	78	63	49
2017–18	92	64	47
2018–19	69	70	49
2019–20	89	72	57
2020–21	87	78	70
2021–22	32	71	77
2022–23	75	92	90
2023–24	82	78	67
2024–25	106	81	63

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

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